Holden: Well, we're gonna get your daughter back.
Don't you worry. Listen, why don't you go call that lawyer again. I need to go
out to the barn and take care of a few things, okay? Forget it, Dusty. Meg
doesn't want to see you.

Dusty: Meg can speak for herself.

Holden: No, she's not in the mood. She lost her
baby. Thanks to you.

Lucy: I don't get it. What did I have to do with
you getting Eliza back?

Paul: You double-crossed me. You told Dusty that
you were only coming on to him because I forced you to.

Lucy: I couldn't lie anymore!

Paul: You know, at first, I wanted to strangle
you, but then I realized that if you hadn't gotten Dusty so riled up, he never
would have come to the farm and used my face as a punching bag.

Lucy: How is that a good thing?

Paul: Well, he played right into my hands.

Lucy: What do you mean? What, you planned all of
this?

Paul: No, no, no. But I'm terrific at
improvising. And once that all happened, you know, once Dusty beat the crap out
of me, it was easy to say that, by associating with such a violent man, Meg was
exposing Eliza to danger, and then the social worker and child services, they
realized that Meg could never provide dear old, sweet Eliza with a safe
environment, and so here she is in my home. Happy ending, right?

Lucy: I can't believe you pulled this off.

Paul: Well, it wasn't hard. And the bruises will
heal. And now I have what Dusty's never gonna have. My kid is with me 24/7.
Isn't that right, Sweet Pea?

Lucy: You did all of this to get back at Dusty?

Paul: Yeah, well, I could have done without him
punching me, but I won this round. And the best part is, Dusty comes out looking
like the bad guy.

Lucy: You won't get away with this.

Paul: I already have. I feel like a drink. I feel
like celebrating. You want to join me?

Lucy: It's way too early.

Paul: Why are you here, Lucy? What do you want?
Are you scared, huh? You're afraid that now that you told Dusty that I'm
blackmailing you that I'm gonna return the favor and tell dear old daddy that
his disloyal daughter --

Lucy: You won't tell on me, Paul.

Paul: I won't? Might be kind of fun.

Lucy: Look, I know I didn't keep my end of the
bargain. I tried, but I couldnít.

Paul: Yeah, you tried. You didn't try hard
enough, did you?

Lucy: I got him to come to my room last night,
alone.

Paul: Yeah, but you didn't get him to come into
your sack. You must be losing your touch.

Lucy: I can't control Dusty.

Paul: Yeah, tell me about it.

Lucy: Are you gonna turn me in, Paul?

Paul: Nah. You know what? I'm just busting your
chops. Everything worked out to my benefit, so I'll give you a break. This time.

Lucy: That's very generous.

Paul: Well, I've got Eliza. I can afford to be
generous.

Lucy: I still think what you're doing to Meg is
despicable.

Paul: I said I gave you a break. Don't push it.

Holden: You're not going in there.

Dusty: That's not your call.

Holden: Haven't you done enough?

Dusty: I want to help get Eliza back. That's why
I'm here.

Holden: Forget it.

Dusty: You don't want things to get ugly, do you?

Holden: Haven't you learned that that doesn't
work? You already tried it with Paul, and now my sister is suffering because of
it.

Dusty: I want to make up for it.

Holden: How? Both you and Paul, you say you're
not gonna hurt my sister, but that's all you do.

Lily: Just try to relax. Listen, I -- I need to
stop the bleeding, and then I can change the bandage. Tell me if this hurts too
much.

Damian: No. Are you still part owner of this
hotel?

Lily: Yes. Why?

Damian: Those are your towels you're ruining.

Lily: Don't worry. I'll send you the bill. Am I
hurting you?

Damian: No. No. I feel safe in your hands.

[Door opens]

Luke: Mom, what the hell are you doing?

Paul: Hey.

Meg: Don't look so surprised. Still on speaking
terms with the staff. I used to live here, remember?

Paul: You should have called first. It's not a
good time.

Meg: How's Eliza?

Paul: She's great. I'm taking really good care of
her.

Meg: Do you mind if I hold her?

Paul: Actually, you know what? I do. You don't
belong here, Meg. This is where I live. This is where I live with my daughter.

Meg: She's my daughter, too.

Paul: No. Not anymore. You gave up your rights
when you walked out on her last night.

Meg: That's not how it happened.

Paul: That's how child services decided it
happened. They're the ones that decided that she belongs here with me, that it's
too dangerous to be with you.

Meg: Paul, can we talk about this?

Paul: You see what your lunatic boyfriend did to
me? You really think that that's the kind of role model I want my little girl
around?

Meg: What Dusty did was wrong.

Paul: What about you, leaving a helpless infant
alone in a house?

Meg: That's not true! You know I would never do
that! That's not how it happened! You set this whole thing up. You went out of
your way to call and tell me that Dusty and Lucy were sleeping together, and
then you made it look like I was so crazed with jealousy that I abandoned my
baby!

Paul: No, no, no. You can't put this one on me.
Not this time, Meg.

Meg: You bribed the sitter. You sent her away,
told her to disappear, and then you set that fire in the kitchen to make it look
like I left Eliza in danger!

Paul: Do you think that I would do something that
reckless? Do you really think that I would play games with my daughter's safety
like that?

Meg: What about when you kidnapped her? We could
have lost her forever because of you!

Paul: Yeah, but she's safe and sound now, just
like she's safe and sound in my home.

Meg: We both know what happened last night, Paul,
and I'm willing to put that aside if we can just talk about what we need to do
to make this work out.

Paul: I think things have worked out pretty well.

Meg: Eliza needs her mother.

Paul: No. Not if it's you. You can't protect her.

Meg: You can't shove me out of her life. We can
figure out a way for both of us to raise our child.

Paul: You know what? We don't need to figure
anything out. I don't, anyway. You're the one that needs to figure out some
changes. Tell me, Meg, what is it that you're willing to change?

Meg: I can come back. The three of us can be a
family, just like you always wanted.

Lily: When I found Damian in the lobby, he was
bleeding.

Luke: So you decided to morph into Florence
Nightingale?

Damian: Luke, your mother has a kind heart. She
was just trying to help.

Lily: Damian wouldn't go back to the hospital,
and when we got up here, the bleeding was worse than I thought.

Damian: She's telling the truth.

Luke: Can't you see what he's doing? Why do you
let him get to you?

Lily: He's not getting to me.

Luke: He always makes you feel bad for him! Why
are you defending him?

Lily: All I was trying to do was to keep the man
from bleeding to death! I owe him that much!

Luke: No, you don't! After what he's done in the
past, what he's doing right now, you don't owe him a damn thing!

Lily: Oh, would you rather I just let him drop
dead?

Luke: Yeah, then it would be better than it is
right now!

Lily: Luke!

Damian: Luciano!

[Door slams]

Damian: Don't worry, Lily. Luke was confused at
first, but he knows now that nothing happened between us.

Lily: I can't do this. You need a doctor to treat
that. I can't help you.

Zoe: What did you do this time, Z?

Zac: I was trying to help, Z. Noah couldn't make
any headway with the account, so I told him I would try to take a crack at it,
myself.

Zoe: You trusted him with a computer? He doesn't
know what he's doing.

Noah: Yeah, I kind of figured that out.

Zoe: He likes to pretend he's some kind of techno
genius, when he's anything but. He's a complete moron.

Zac: No, I'm not. And you're the one who totally
crashed my notebook.

Zoe: All of your software was booby-trapped!

Zac: Because you installed it, and you don't have
a clue!

Zoe: Don't call me clueless when you're
brain-dead!

Noah: Okay. What's wrong with you two?

Zac: Nothing. Zoe just gets emotional. She'll
forget the whole thing in about three seconds. We're both like that.

Noah: You mean insane?

Zac: Spontaneous. Impulsive. When we feel like
something, we act on it. Like this.

[Zac kisses Noah]

Zac: Was that as good for you as it was for Z?

Dusty: We got to talk.

Lucy: I'm working.

Dusty: Take a break. You hear about Meg and her
baby?

Lucy: Yeah. I went to see Paul. I know that he
has Eliza. I'm really, really sorry.

Dusty: Sorry's not good enough.

Lucy: I should have found a way to handle Paul
when he started blackmailing me, and I should never have gotten you involved.

Dusty: Well, you did, and look what happened.

Lucy: I know. The whole thing blew up, and now
Meg's lost her child.

Dusty: Paul cannot keep that baby.

Lucy: He wonít. Meg will handle this legally, and
the truth will come out. When it does, no court in the world is gonna let that
baby stay with Paul.

Dusty: Meg shouldn't have to go through all that
garbage.

Lucy: She's going to get her baby back.

Dusty: That's got to happen now. You got to talk
to Meg, children's services, and the social worker. You got to come clean. Tell
them Paul was blackmailing you.

Paul: She fell right asleep. She really likes her
new nursery.

Meg: So, did you hear what I said? I was offering
you a chance for us to be a family again.

Paul: Come on, Meg. You don't love me. Not
anymore. You have no intention of ever coming back to me.

Meg: I think we need to be a family right now for
Eliza. And, yes, I am angry at you for what you've done, but I've always loved
you. Never stopped.

Paul: Liar. Look at you. You can't even make
those words come out of your mouth.

Meg: Then give me a chance to prove it! I am
willing to come back here and live with you so I can be with my daughter! I'll
do whatever it takes to make things better for us as a couple and for us as a
family!

Paul: Would you give up Dusty?

Meg: Yes, I would.

Paul: And the old-fashioned vows, you'd do that?
You'd keep yourself only for me, forsaking all others? Would you be my wife?

Meg: Yes, Paul. I'd be your wife, in every way.

Paul: Prove it. Go ahead. Prove it to me. Prove
to me that you will love and cherish and honor me forever. Go ahead. Don't stop.
Now what?

Meg: Don't humiliate me like this, Paul.

Paul: Now what?

Meg: Make love to me.

Paul: Save all that for Dusty. You two deserve
each other. Put your clothes on and get out. I got everything I want, and it's
not you.

Lucy: You can't make me do this, Dusty. I can't
go public with my work. I have to keep it secret.

Dusty: Why?

Lucy: You know damn well why. Shipping those
supplies to the FGA could save thousands of refugees.

Dusty: What about Meg and her daughter? They need
each other.

Lucy: And I need to keep my word. I owe it to
them for protecting me in Africa. They kept Johnny safe. They help people who
are starving, women who are oppressed, children who are living with aids.

Dusty: So you say. So you say.

Lucy: Are you accusing me of making this up?

Dusty: Be prepared to tell the truth by this time
tomorrow, or I will.

Holden: Yeah, I know, but Paul, he set Meg up,
and now he's playing it for all it's worth.

Lily: He shouldn't be able to manipulate people
like that.

Holden: Are you okay?

Lily: I'm fine.

Holden: No, no, no. What is it? What's up?

Lily: Luke was having problems with the
foundation's bank account, and he thought Damian was behind it, so I went
looking for Damian.

Holden: Wait. You went back to the hospital?

Lily: Yes, but he had already left.

Holden: Okay. What did he do now?

Lily: When I found him in the lobby, he was in
really bad shape. He had started bleeding again, and it was everything I could
do to get him back up into his room, and when I was trying to change his
bandage, Luke walked in.

Holden: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You
were what?

Lily: I was trying to stop the man from bleeding
to death!

Holden: No, no, no, no. You don't do that. A
doctor does that. A doctor goes up to his room, not you!

Lily: No, you don't understand. He refused
medical help. He nearly collapsed in the lobby! I had to do something!

Holden: Okay. So, when Luke walked into the room,
was Damian dressed?

Lily: His shirt was off.

Holden: Great, great.

Lily: I told you, I was trying to stop the
bleeding.

Holden: You know, I asked you to stay away from
Damian so that you don't end up alone with him. And what do you do? You go to
his hotel room, you take his shirt off, and you put your hands all over him.

Lily: Don't make it sound like that.

Holden: I take it that Luke didn't really like
what he saw. Am I wrong?

Lily: No. He was really upset.

Holden: I don't blame him. Lily, no matter what
you do, you can't seem to stay away from Damian, can you?

Zac: Aw, what's the matter, Noah? Have you never
been kissed before? I'm gonna have to speak to that boyfriend of yours. He must
be falling down on the job. Ah, your ears must be burning.

Luke: Why? What's going on?

Zac: We just had a little computer mishap, and
then my sister pulled her little hissy fits and walked out. She'll be back. She
always comes back.